Six dead bodies including a sibling and a mother-daughter duo were recovered from a house in Sidhra Jammu on Wednesday morning.
Police rushed to the spot after getting information and shifted the bodies to the hospital for a post-mortem.
The cause of the death is not known yet. An official told news agency Kashmir News Trust that things will be clear after the post-mortem.
He identified the deceased as Sakina Begum widow of late Ghulam Hassan, her daughter Naseema Akhtar, the brother-sister duo, Rubina Bano and Zafar Salim, issues of Ghulam Hussain, Noor-ul-Habib son of Habibullah, and Sajad Ahmed son of Farooq Ahmed Magray.
Five of the deceased are from Marmat Doda and one from Barzulla area of Srinagar,(KNT)